I keep coming back to this question. Why do people want to bother with that fake black stuff, which is primarily black hair dye?* Why not just go with the real deal? Your skin stained the deep, rich, reddish brown color that screams organic, ceremonial and mysterious. Besides, as we all know, a safe, natural black temporary tattoo is easily had courtesy of the jagua fruit from the Amazon jungle. Just ask the FDA, or better yet, ask the indigenous Indians in the Amazon! Jagua has been their preferred form of temporary body art for centuries. And you can get Earth Jagua kits right here!
But back to henna: More than 25 years after henna tattoos made a splash in the west, painted hands and feet and backs and legs are still popular, with henna kits available everywhere—except on Amazon.com where what you’ll find are make-believe henna tattoo kits that call themselves anything but henna tattoo kits to get around the Amazon algorithms that don’t allow henna kits on their platform. Why? They told us we couldn’t sell our henna kits there because the FDA didn’t approve of Black Henna. We said—and gave them proof—that we had nothing to do with that crap, that we only deal in pure, organic henna, which stains the skin one color only—reddish brown—NOT blue and green and red and black and every other color of the rainbow. But to no avail. So, sellers dealing in fake henna temporary tattoos call their products “temporary tattoo kits,” “semi-permanent tattoo paste cones,” “Temporary ‘hair dye’” and other clever variations to avoid being banned from the platform. We can’t and won’t do that. We are Earth Henna. We introduced henna tattoos on the West Coast of the United States in California back in 1998. We take pride in our henna tattoo kits. We won’t rename or rebrand ourselves, or change our packaging to become some vague temporary tattoo product.
Back in the day, after some TV news stations overdramatized the FDA’s advisory warning against “black henna” tattoos, some people started thinking real henna tattoos were dangerous, even life-threatening. Hello??
We hope you’ll help us spread the word about the safety of henna tattoos and about our super easy-to-use Earth Henna temporary tattoo kits. Pure henna is not dangerous; misinformation is deadly.
*Hair dye = OK on scalp; not OK on skin.